This beginner training module will teach you the basics of 3D content creation in Blender 2.5. You’ll start by learning this powerful program’s interface, how to navigate around your scenes, and organize your content. This is the first module in Blender 2.5 Content Creation Fundamentals.
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Organizing your windows in Blender greatly help you model, animate, and texture. This tutorial goes over the basics of organizing window views in Blender 2.5, as there have been some User Interface changes as well as some new functionality in this version. The organizing window views has been greatly simplified in Blender 2.5 versus Blender 2.4x.

NEW to Blender in Blender 2.5 is smoke. Before you would have to try to fake smoke with particles, but not anymore. With this tutorial you will get a primer into using the particles' smoke option to get a realistic smoke simulation.